Background: From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new SARS-CoV-2 variants have
emerged that potentially affect transmissibility, severity, and immune evasion in infected …

The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared on March 11 th, 2020. Since the very
beginning, the spread of the virus has been tracked nearly in real-time by worldwide …

Abstract From February to April 2020, Lombardy (Italy) reported the highest numbers of
SARS-CoV-2 cases worldwide. By analyzing 346 whole SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we …

Mining and analysis of the big data of Twitter conversations have been of significant interest
to the scientific community in the fields of healthcare, epidemiology, big data, data science …

Qatar, a country with a strong health system and a diverse population consisting mainly of
expatriate residents, has experienced two large waves of COVID-19 outbreak. In this study …

Since its introduction in the human population, SARS-CoV-2 has evolved into multiple
clades, but the events in its intrahost diversification are not well understood. Here, we …

Little is known about SARS-CoV-2 evolution under Molnupiravir and Paxlovid, the only
antivirals approved for COVID-19 treatment. By investigating SARS-CoV-2 variability in 8 …

Since the identification of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
as the etiological agent of the current COVID-19 pandemic, a rapid and massive effort has …

Since the start of SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, children aged≤ 12 years have always been
defined as underrepresented in terms of SARS-CoV-2 infections' frequency and severity. By …

The apparent uncertainty associated with shedding patterns, environmental impacts, and
sample processing strategies have greatly influenced the variability of SARS-CoV-2 …